FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs

Shaun T. Erickson ste at smxy.org
Sun May 16 06:47:07 PDT 2004


Sunil Sunder Raj wrote:
>
> Just give 777 permissions to /var/log/messages

This is BAD advice, and you should NOT follow it. If you do, you will 
give anyone the ability to modify or delete your log entries, which yoou 
do NOT want. Find and fix the actual problem; don't bypass the symptom 
with something that reduces system security.

	-ste


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